Monday, December 19, 2011

Finished up Hornby's Juliet, Naked. It was pretty good. A super quick, super easy read. I kind of lost interest in the characters toward the end though. Probably not good in such a character driven novel. Ah well.

Then I picked up something a bit more dense -- Mieville's The Scar, which was excellent! I now am eager to read Perdido Street Station, but since I didn't have a copy on hand, I started reading Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle instead (which I've read a number of times, so I know what I'm getting here -- wonderful, wacky stuff full of thinking points.) Anyway, I think that makes 34 books so far this year -- which isn't all that much for me, but I've read some long ones (thank you, George R.R. Martin). I'm already looking forward to some books that are on my 2012 reading list, but since I need to run, more on that later.

Monday, December 12, 2011

First of all, let me say that I was super scared to fry anything. I tried frying once -- about 20 some years ago -- and burned myself pretty badly. This time I made sure I had the right tools and lots of knowledge, and all went very well, indeed! No accidents, no scary moments. In fact, it wasn't even as messy as I thought it would be.

I used this recipe and I'm sure it would have been awesome if I could have used regular flour, but I used my gluten free mix instead and they turned out too dense. Don't get me wrong, we were chowing down on them -- especially when they were still hot! Next time I need to cut back the flour, or increase the buttermilk, or something. I think it would make a huge difference.